02 Dec 1854
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Newspaper
Cannelton Reporter
Location
Cannelton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1854
Page
1
Classified notice from J. M. Beatty announcing subscription terms and advertising rates for the Cannelton Reporter. Legal ads must be prepaid, marriages and deaths free, obituary notices charged, with standard line counting and discounts for large advertisers.
A satirical anti-monarchical lament from New York in 1863 by W. P. P. mocks royal pomp and divine right. The text envisions a future where people reject rulers like Measiaurs Divine Richt and allied dynasties, urging democratic equality and upright governance.
A German music teacher follows a beautiful street passerby to a drugstore and, claiming a decayed tooth, asks for her opinion. The two converse in a barber shop like parlor as the man hopes to gain an audience with the lady. The scene ends with the doctor’s stern rebuke as the man seeks a professional moment.
A man visits a dentist who extracts the wrong tooth in a painful, mistaken procedure. The dentist apologizes, performs another extraction, and charges five dollars. He hazards a grim joke that future pain could be ended by pulling all his teeth.
Hon John M Clayton delivers a long defense of the Know Nothing or American party platform in Delaware city. He discusses religious tolerance naturalization for aliens and Americans ruling their country while criticizing foreign voting, Nebraska policy, and party unity across geographic lines.
A colorful, rough recounting of fist fights and tavern chaos mix with social notes about Fanny Fern N. P. Willis and Edwin Forrest at Idlewild. The piece also samples moral guidance on home life and domestic virtue, urging honest, cheerful households and measured parenting.
A satirical piece argues against harsh judgment of the poor and urges charity tempered by guidance. It condemns stinginess and moralizing while urging humane acts and practical aid, though delivered in a heated, informal voice.
A Texas physician relays a touching tale of a little girl who, faced with caring for an orphan during an epidemic, pleads with her father to keep the child. The father agrees after the daughter vows to stay by and care for her companion, making the girl the guardian nurse herself. The scene evokes pure charity and selflessness.
A spirited defense of mechanics praising their role in constructing palaces, ships, and cathedrals. The passage extols mechanical skill as essential to beauty, strength, and progress, urging respect for the fraternity of tradesmen.
A droll tale from a rural community recalls an honest farmer who, aided by a clever animal, overcomes a mishap with wit. The involved incident highlights small-town charm and resourceful problem solving.
A Cincinnati correspondent reports to the New York Herald that a Know Nothing Convention will meet in Cincinnati on Wednesday last with twenty two states represented. The assembly aims to transfer routine business before the Council and to elect the Order’s Chief for the entire Union, who may be seen as the Know Nothing presidential candidate. Five men are named as likely contenders: Gen Sam Houston Texas Gen Winfield Scott New Jersey Hon Jacob Broom Pennsylvania Hon Millard Fillmore New York Hon John M Clayton Delaware.
A female hermit in Harrion County lives alone in a self built house. She cultivates fields and makes her own tools and fences. This autumn she will sell one hundred bushels of corn and hundreds of bushels of poissoes. The column praises her industry and independence and hints at a potential marriage prospect.
A quirky fragment portrays Nathaniel Shelly misnamed as Nat and mocked for spelling to insult him. The scene blends slang, humor, and muddled dialogue in a colonial newspaper style.
In a fragment from Wiltshire Mirror, Alexander and Diogenes debate virtue in a mythic Corinth setting, while a separate local note from Privet tells of a boy feeding and playing with adders under a shepherd’s distress, as authorities intervene.
A compilation of miscellaneous snippets includes a child’s tale retelling, a quip about marriage by Dayton Gazette, an odd reference to Sancho, and varied notes on income reports, fashion items, and curiosities. The text features garbled OCR lines with mentions of Astor’s income, a Nebraskan ironies find, and a Cashmere shawl from the World’s Fair era.
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